When one thinks back on the literary and scientific wealth of the ancient world, the Great Library of Alexandria immediately comes to mind, provoking awe at its sheer size and the magnitude of its archives, and sorrow at the knowledge that was lost with its destruction. A myth of a kind has been woven around it, which obscures the reality of its grand archives as well as that of its long decline, rather than a single, epic obliteration. This art…
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